Michael Phelps Betters a Champion

By The Associated Press

Aug. 9, 2015

Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at the national championships in San Antonio. Phelps’s winning time, 50.45 seconds, was faster than Chad Le Clos’s time about eight hours earlier in Kazan, Russia, where Le Clos won the world championship in 50.56. After that race, Le Clos and his father both talked confidently about how they were not concerned with what Phelps was doing in Texas.

Correction:

A headline with a report in some editions of the Sports Briefing column last Sunday about Michael Phelps’s victory in the 100-meter butterfly at the national swimming championships misstated the significance of Phelps’s winning time in some copies. It was faster than Chad Le Clos’s winning time at the world championships eight hours earlier; it was not a record.